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For European travelers – especially Brits – flying cheaply has become a normal way of getting around the continent, with carriers like easyJet and Ryanair providing very low fares by offering no-frills service connecting smaller airports. In France, offering low-cost travel has been a priority for SNCF since the TGV opened in 1981, as tickets [...]
The recently elected president of France, François Hollande, made news with his use of high speed rail for his vacation this month: Frugally-minded Hollande, who promised during spring’s presidential campaign to save money by catching trains, took high-speed rail on Thursday from Paris with his girlfriend, Valerie Trierweiler. They’re headed for the Fort de Bregancon, [...]
I really like the first half of this post at Christian Science Monitor by Andrew Holland explaining why California and the Northeast need high speed rail. He clearly understands that HSR’s costs have to be assessed in context: When opponents talk about the high costs of high speed rail (and they are high), they are [...]
One of the less noticed parts of the infamous LA Times article about the SNCF suggestion to bypass the population centers of the Central Valley was this short tidbit that JR Central, one of the operators of the Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan, had also dropped out of the bidding to build and/or operate high [...]
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